Notebook Level One

1. Evaluate drafts of poems in your "Work in Progress" file that seem suited to the lyric mode. Revise them according to precepts learned in this chapter.

2. Review the basic lyric forms discussed in this chapter and select suitable ideas from your "Idea File." Then follow the appropriate methods of composition and compose first drafts. After each draft, describe in your journal how the method of composition helped or did not help you come up with a lyric.